Legend is also the second longest charting album in the history of the Billboard charts, with 992 combined weeks on the Billboard 200 and Billboard Top Pop Catalogue Album charts.

It has spent over 761 weeks on the United Kingdom Album chart.

Bob Marley died in May 1981 at age 36.

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